Minor Quotes

457 Minor quotes by 390 unique authors

Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.… — Paul Verlaine
The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as… — Rick Riordan
All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is… — Terry Eagleton
a guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child's advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor. You don't have… — Jodi Picoult
For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes,… — John Green
I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking… — Christopher Fowler
Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out… — Sylvia Plath
Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the… — Pope Benedict XVI
Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and… — Christopher Brookmyre
It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes -Miles "Pudge — John Green
Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens… — Nick Hornby
Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish… — James Thurber
Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants. — Jonathan Stroud
If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned… — Wallace Stegner
There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity — Tom Peters
The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the… — Eric Hoffer
Many people think of our times as being the last before the end of the world. The evidence of horror all around us makes this… — Sophie Scholl
It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part, I should be… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Asmodeus! You donâ€™t see her, do you hear me? (Jericho) Completely blind, Minor Master. Hearing is intact. Is there anyone here besides the two of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
You rang, Mino- well, youâ€™re not really the Minor Master anymore, are you? What should I call you? (Asmodeus) Think of a polite term, demon.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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390 authors contributed a total of 457 Minor Quotes, led by these top contributors: